Originally Posted by donc

Your way off here IMO, technique might not matter if your in your early twenties, and the body has plenty of healing power but believe me the body has pretty good memory, and a way of remembering the abuse inflected upon it. Training to failure/ exhaustion sounds logical; think it out a bit, you want to work a muscle in the area of 60 to 80% of output, sounds simple enough. The only problem with this line of reasoning is that most people don’t know, or have they thought in their noggin(speaking for myself unfortunately)that more, surely must be better, if 60-80% is good. Soooo…out the window goes Proper form, (gotta get that last rep in), who needs the little stabilizer muscles anyway? When the stabilizer muscles get ignored, surprise, surprise, they don’t develop, and the improper form is now the way the movement is done, it becomes natural, down the road a few years the neck starts have trouble turning, the walk is crooked, because one side of the hip is aching, cant stand long without shifting the Wight too the other side because of hip problem’s. Then you have your body’s recovery system. This type of training does it no good because it overstresses it, the brain starts seeing a series of emergencies, sending the appropriate alarms out all of which is of course is ignored because of the no pain, no gain, mentality installed by years of misinformation coming from well meaning coaches, and others; eureka, repetitive stress injuries, eventual, hip replacement/knee replacement, Osteoarthritis….